The vehicle was purportedly outfitted with two separate propane tanks. The child, Zoey, burned to death after Pereira reportedly set fire inside the car. She was strapped into her car seat with both rear doors chained shut, one to the other, so that the doors could not be opened.
The suspect was found at a pond at a nearby park, in flames, and trying to extinguish himself.

What are the details?

According to authorities, Pereira is a suspect in Zoey's death, which was ruled a homicide, the New York Post reported.
The incident took place Sunday night in Queens, New York. Pereira's vehicle reportedly had a propane tank inside, and a propane tank outside, connected to the car via a hose. A law enforcement source told the New York Post that it was a "horrific way to kill a little girl."

A witness reportedly saw Pereira on fire and attempted to help him put out his burning clothing. Pereira reportedly told the witness that his child was in the car, but he fled when the witness phoned 911.
He fled to the nearby pond, but authorities discovered him there, the New York Post reported.
Investigators are now trying to figure out if Pereira tried to kill himself as well as the child, but backed out at the last minute, or if he set himself on fire in error.
Another source told the Post, "If I had a crystal ball, I'd say he's probably going to be charged with murder."
The source added, "My thought process is maybe he tried to kill himself and the child, and it got to be too much so he ran away. Or, he might have accidentally lit himself on fire."
First responders took Pereira from the scene to nearby Jamaica Hospital, where he was treated for second- and third-degree burns. The Post reported that as of Monday, Pereira was being treated at Weill Cornell Medical Center and was in police custody. He has yet to be charged, according to the Post.
First responders were able to extricate Zoey from the car and begin CPR, but it was too late, the New York Post reported. She was taken to the hospital, but they could not save the little child either.
The Post reported that Pereira has a history of crime. He was reportedly arrested once for criminal contempt, and had two arrests for aggravated harassment against a different woman in 2013.

What else?

The outlet also reported that Pereira was "locked in a bitter custody dispute" with the child's mother, and reportedly had a history of threatening to hurt the little girl leading up to the child's death.
The Post noted that Pereira was supposed to be returning the child to her mother's custody on Sunday night. The mother, Cherone Coleman, reportedly phoned police to report her daughter missing around the time that Pereira was setting the car on fire.
Coleman, a 36-year-old medical assistant, told the New York Daily Newsthat she is heartbroken.
"Just before he burned my daughter he called saying crazy things," Coleman revealed. "I couldn't even understand some of them, but he said, 'Do I have your attention now, b****? I got your attention now, b****. You're never going to see your daughter again.'
"My daughter was perfect. She was loving, always smiling, and oh so caring," she added. "She was my only child, and I can't have any more."
Coleman said that she wishes death on Pereira.
"I wish I could torture him and kill him," she admitted. "I can't imagine the pain my baby went through. She was burned terribly, her bones were out and he ran off and left her to burn to death. Why would he do this to my daughter to get to me? It doesn't make sense."
The child's aunt told the Post that she also hopes Pereira dies.
"He killed a baby. He burned her alive. He did that to her. That's not even human, that's an animal. That's a coward," she said. "He did that to her. That's not even human, that's an animal," one of the child's aunts told the outlet.
"I hope he f***ing dies. I'm just being honest. I hope he dies," another aunt added.

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Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.

The Goals of Communism

(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.